Sharon Creer Sports Management

She’s Got Game: Sports Agent Sharon Creer

“Because you’re a woman,” the coach retorted as if the answer were an obvious one.

That was three years ago. And while female sports agents aren’t a novelty in the WNBA, “In the male genre, I’m still quite new,” Creer acknowledges. In the beginning, she often received voice mail from coaches who were startled by talking to a female agent. Creer hasn’t, however, allowed such overt or even intimated sexism deter her from what she identified as a great career opportunity.